"Diablo 3 will make everyone else accept the fact you have to be connected. If you have a juggernaut, you can make change. I'm all for that. If we could force people to always be connected when you play the game, and then have that be acceptable, awesome," id Software Creative Director Tim Willits tells Eurogamer. "In the end, it's better for everybody. Imagine picking up a game and it's automatically updated. Or there's something new you didn't know about, and you didn't have to click away. It's all automatically there. But it does take juggernauts like [Diablo 3] to make change. I'm a big proponent of always connected. I'm always connected. Our fans are always connected. There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it'll change."

Eh, all this squibbling. Simply put. I want to be able to play my SINGLE PLAYER GAME, wherever and whenever _I_ want, not whenever and wherever someone else wants me to. I shouldn't be stopped from doing it, because some route on the 'net goes down, someone decides to DOS Blizzard, Blizzard's activation/authorization server goes down, the latency on my connection is too high so I am dropped out of my game (it's happened in single player games before).